[Lustre-discuss] mkfs.lustre fails (Cannot allocate memory)

[Johann Lombardi]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:33:04AM -0800, syed haider wrote:
>    mkfs.lustre: Unable to mount /dev/cciss/c0d1: Cannot allocate memory
>    mkfs.lustre FATAL: failed to write local files
>    mkfs.lustre: exiting with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

This is bug 17490 which has been fixed in 1.6.7 & 1.8.0.

>    I saw some discussion about this same problem and it was suggested to
>    modify the ldiskfs code.*I can't go with 1.8.2 or CentOS5.4. Can anyone
>    help with this?

You can apply the patch to 1.6.6 (only the ldiskfs rpm needs to be recompiled)
or just upgrade to 1.6.7.2.

Johann